U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has demoted Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove, EducationNews.org reports. Gove had begun to initiate numerous reforms, including “the creation of independent free schools, performance-based teacher pay,” and “an overhaul of the exams system.” But he irritated the the country’s teachers unions:
According to a recent poll, 79% of teachers were unhappy with what Gove had been doing in office. Seventy-five percent of those polled said the teaching profession had fallen since the last General Election.
His reforms changed monthly, many times undoing previous reforms, which all had to be adapted immediately making the education profession exhausting.
In four years as education secretary, Gove did not appear once at any teacher union conferences, having his deputy, the school minister, go in his place. He openly referred to EU’s educational establishment – the unions and teacher colleges – as “the blob.”
However, many leaders of the European Union’s head teachers associations are in Gove’s corner, saying “he has a great ‘commitment to improving the life chances of young people.’”
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